Just for the record: If you are talking about Google Apps … you can easily install those additionally to Fairphone Open OS or LineageOS. Open GApps is your friend, you can install the ZIP file of your choice using the TWRP recovery (press Volume Up when starting or rebooting the phone).
If you end up having to install from scratch, here’s a working way for Fairphone Open OS … post from some time ago, version numbers might be outdated …
You could try the TWRP way …
Attention! This will remove the installed OS and all your data from the phone (which the “factory reset” available in the OS will not completely do by the way, so don’t bother with that).
Put a microSD card into the phone.
Get TWRP running as recovery:
Download a TWRP image already adapted to the slightly changed hardware of the new Fairphone 2 batch here , currently TWRP_3.1.1-0-ota-fix.img.
To install this image, follow the “Fastboot Install Method (No Roo…
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